About Us
What is the Inventors Village?
The Inventors Village is an innovative project to provide unique studio laboratories with mentoring support for inventors and innovators from all walks of life in exploring and refining and business idea. The mission for the Inventors Village is to support creative and inventive people of diverse origin, thinking, experience and skills locally, to develop innovative and new products, services and process ideas and to convert these into viable and sustainable enterprises which will be implemented locally regionally or transnationally. There is a need to support the entrepreneurs of the future to diversify the rural economy and explore opportunities for innovation.
- Apply your imaginative thinking, then produce or implement that which you conceive. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. Which is more of a challenge: the ability to generate creative ideas, or the ability to act on them? The greatest challenge is the ability to act. TAKE THE CHALLENGE IN DUNHILL
- Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being...creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life: "The experience is one of heightened consciousness-ecstasy" - Rollo May, The Courage to Create. COME FEEL THE ECSTASY IN DUNHILL
- The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and of hope, where others have resigned: "It enables us to hold our head high, to claim the future for ourselves, and not to abandon it to others" - Dietrich Bonhoeffer. FEED YOURSELF ON THE DUNHILL OPTIMISM
- A product process or service is creative when it is (a) novel and (b) appropriate. Novel things are original, not predictable. "The bigger the concept and the more the product stimulates further work and ideas, the more the product is creative" - Sternberg & Lubart, Defying the Crowd. DEFY THE CROWD AND DARE TO BE DUNHILL!
- Entrepreneurial creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. UNCOVER YOUR HIDDEN IDEAS IN DUNHILL
- Generating fresh solutions to problems, and the ability to create new products, processes or services for a changing market, are part of the intellectual capital that gives competitive edge. Creativity is a crucial part of the innovation equation. THE INVENTORS VILLAGE IS YOUR SOLUTION
- Creativity requires whole-brain thinking: right brain imagination, artistry and intuition, and left brain logic and planning. PLAY OUT YOUR TALENTS AND APPLY YOUR BRAIN IMAGINATIVELY IN DUNHILL
